Field Trip Friday: April 20, 2012

THE BIG NEWS THIS WEEK

And the 2012 Pulitzer for Fiction goes to... no one! "[I]n allowing the selection process to become hamstrung, the Pulitzer jury
and board have denied laurels to a novelist, something there are
already too few of these days," says Bethanne Patrick at BookRiot; judge Maureen Corrigan shared her anger at the WaPo, and Ann Pratchett feels "disappointment as a writer and indignation as a reader," but manages "to get all the way to rage as a bookseller."

- Look, I know this is going to be upsetting to some of you, but Frost was joking about the importance of the road less traveled. I found that out from a professor who gleefully made fun of our freshman optimism, but you can take a less annoying route: see that and nine more of the "most misunderstood lines" in literary history(via Kate Testerman).

- Editor Diana Gill, agent Ginger Clark, and Publicity Director Pamela Spengler-Jaffee did an AMA at Reddit this week. (You can practically see Diana blushing through the screen when "weinerjuicer" gave her a "marry, boff, kill" question.)

- "There is nothing worse than being a girl. I’m not saying this as a
former girl- I quite liked being a girl. I’m saying this from the POV of
the entire rest of the world." Mur Lafferty's fantastic letter to her daughter(via Liz Czukas)

Kate is the author of After the Fall, coming January 24, 2017 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A former teacher and grant writer, she now owns a treehouse-building business in the Ozarks and hosts the Badass Ladies You Should Know interview series.

Kate! Funny typo alert!! I believe there is a novel/film called Like Water for Chocolate and another called Water For Elephants -- though I would be interested seeing in a Latino family drama circus mash-up!